Dispensing device



Feb. 26, 1929.

W. N. COVE DISPENSING DEVICE Filed June 20, 1928 Patented Feb. 26, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT'OFF ICE.

WILLIAM NELSON COVE, OF SEYMOUR, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE H. A. MAT-THEWS MFG. 00., OF SEYMOUR, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

DISPENSING DEVICE.

Application filed June 20,

This invention relates to an improvement in dispensing devices andparticularly to dispensing devices for cigarettes and like articles butnot so limited.

The object of this invention is to produce at a low cost for manufacturea simple and effective dispensing device constructed with particularreference to fewness of parts and reliability of action.

Vith this object in view my invention consists in a dispensing devicecharacterized by a magazine-casing formed with a delivery-- opening, atiltable, unitary, combined agitat ing-and-delivery member guided formove ment in one plane at its outer end where it is provided. with atrough normally lying outside of the said casing and guided at its innerend for movement in a plane diverse to the first-mentioned plane,whereby a single unitary member discharges the functions of bothdelivery and agitation.

My invention further consists in a dispensing device characterized asabove and having certain details of construction and combinations ofparts as will be hereinafter described and particularly recited in theclaims. y

4 In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is perspective view of a cigarette dispenser constructed inaccordance with my invention; I v

Fig. 2 is a top or plan view thereof with the cover removed;

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a corresponding view but showing the combineddelivery-and-agitating member retired into the casing;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 3; I

Fig. 6 is a top or plan view of the combined deliveryand-agitatingmember; and

Fig. 7 is a side edge view thereof.

In the embodiment of my invention herein chosen forillustration I employa tubular I rectangular sheet-metal casing 10, the front wall of whichis cut away as at 11 to form a delivery-opening. Inserted intothe bottomof the said casing is a bottom-plate 12 having upstanding flanges 13preferably secured in the said casing by soldering, brazing, or spotwelding. The open upper end of the casing is closed by a rectangularflanged cover 14.

Secured within the casing to the inner 1928. Serial No. 286,729.

face of therear wall 15 thereof, is a guideplate 16 comprising afastening-reach 17, a horizontally-offset stop-reach 18 and a verticalguide-reach 19. The uide-reach 19 of the guide-plate 16. as clear yshown in Figs. 3 and f the drawings, is spaced away from the rear wall15 of the casing so as to form a guide-channel 20 extendingsubstantially across the entire width of the casing and designed for thereception of a weighted roller 21 secured at its respective oppositeends by means of pins 22 to the downwardlyturned flanges 23 which flankthe opposite side edges of a combined deliver -and-agitating member 24.

The above mentioned agitating-and-delivery member is formed ofsheet-metal and is bent to form two relatively-inclined surfaces 25 and26 upon which. the cigarettes contained within the casing are adapted torest. The forward end of the member 24 projects outward through thedelivery-opening 11 in the casing 10 and is there bowed downward to forma cigarette-receiving trough or groove 27 extending across the entirewidth of the said member and terminating in a finger-piece 28.

The weighted roller '21 at the rear end of the combinedIagitating-and-delivery member 24 normally rests upon a felt pad 29positioned upon the upper face of the stopreach 18 of the guide-member16, while the forward end of the said member is normally supported bythe rounded forward ends of the flanges 24- which rest upon the bottom12 of the casing. I

A11 inward thrust upon the finger-piece 28 will cause the combinedagitating-and-delivery member 24 to tilt into the position shown in Fig.4. In which position its trough 27 is forced inward through thedelivery-opening 11. so that a cigarette may drop therein andthelweighted roller 21 at its rear end has ridden upward in theguidegroove 20 until it engages a stop-finger 30- bent rearward from thevertical reach 19 of the guide-plate 16.

When the pressure is removed from the finger-piece 28, the weightedroller 21 will descend by gravity in the guide-groove 20 and force thetrough 27, together with the cigarette contained'therein, outwardthrough the delivery-opening 11 into the position in which the parts areshown in Fig. 3. The return of the member 26 to the position shown. inFig. 3 is facilitated by a weight 31 secured to the under face of theportion 26 thereof.

It will be apparent that as the combined agitating-and delivery member24 is 'moved fromthe positionshown in. Fig. 3 to that shown in Fig. 4the cigarettes or other articles contained within the casing 10 will bemore or less agitated and aligned so that the entry of one of the saidarticles into the trough 27 is facilitated.

I am aware that heretofore dispensing devices have been devised in whichboth agi- 'tation and delivery have been effected, but only whendistinct and relatively-n'iovable elements have been employed for eachpurpose. By means of my invention I am enabled to discharge bothfunctions by means of aunitary combined agitating-and-delivery memberthereby not only eifecting savings in cost of material and assembly butalso producing a device much more reliable in use, since owing to itssimplicity it is practically immune to derangement.

I-claim:

1. A push-in type dispensingdevice comprising a magazine-casing formedwith a delivery-opening; and a tiltable, unitary, combinedagitating-and-delivery member guided for movement in asubstantiallyhorizontal plane at its outer end where it is provided witha delivery-trough normally projected -outward through thedelivery-opening in the said casing in position to be manually pushedinward therethrough to cause the said member to tilt, and guided at itsinner end for movement in :a substantially-vertical plane; whereby aunitary member discharges both the functions of delivery and agitation.

2. A dispensing "device comprising a magazine-casing,formed with adelivery-opening; and a tiltable, unitary, combinedagitating-anthdeliver y member guided for movement "in one planeat itsouter end where it is provided with a delivery-trough normally projectedoutward through the delivery-opening in the said casing, and provided atits inner end with a weighted roller guided for movementin a planediverse "to to the first-mentioned plane; whereby a unitary memberdischarges both the "functions of delivery and agitation.

3. AdispensingdevicenompriSing a magazine-casing formed with adelivery-opening; a tiltable, unitary, combined agitatingand-deliverymember guided for movement in one plane at its outer end where it is provided with a delivery-trough normally projected outward through thedelivery-openin the said casing, and guided at its innuend for movement'inaplane diverse to the "first-mentioned plane', and stopsmeanscovact'ing withgthe inner end of the said member forflimiting itsmovement whereby a unitary member discharges both the func tions ofdelivery and agitation.

4. A dispensing device comprising a mag azine-casing formed with adelivery-open ing; a tiltable, aunitary, combined agitatingand-deliverymember guided for movement in one plane at its outer end where it isprovided with a delivery-trough normally projected outward through thedelivery-opening in the said casing, and provided at its inner end witha weighted roller guided for movement in a plane diverse to thefirst-mentioned plane; and stop-means co-acting with the said roller forlimiting the movement of the said member; whereby a unitary memberdischarges both the functions ofdelivery and agitation.

A push-in type dispensing device comprising a magazine-casing formedwith a delivery-opening; and. a tiltable, unitary, combinedagitating-and-delivery member having two relatively-inclined andrelatively rigid surfaces and guided for movement in a substantiallyhorizontal plane at its outer end where it is provided with adelivery-trough normally projected outward through the delivery-openingin the said casing in position to be manually pushed inward therethroughto cause the said member to tilt, and guided at its inner end formovement in a substan tially-vertical plane; whereby a unitary memberdischarges both the functions of delivery and agitation.

6. A dispensing device comprising a magazine-casing formed in one wallwith'a delivery-opening and provided in its interior with asubstantially-vertical guide-channel; and a tiltable, unitary, combinedagitatingand-delivery member guided for-movement in a substantiallyhorizontal plane at its outer end, where .it is provided with adeliverytrough, and provided at its inner end with a transverse barpositioned in the said guidechannel for substantially vertical movementtherein; whereby a unitary ineuiber discharges both the functions ofdelivery and agitation. p

7. A dispensing device comprising a mag azine-casin'g formed in one wallwith a dcliveryepening and provided in its interior with asubstantially-verti 'ail guide-channel; and a tiltable, unitary,combined agitatingand-delivery member guided for movement in a "suitantially-horizontal plane at its outer end, where it is provided witha de' livery trough, and provided at its inner end with a transverseweighted roller positioned in the said guidochzinnel forsubstantiallyvertical movement therein; whereby a unitary memberdischarges both the functions of delivery and agitation.

In testimony whereoid have signed this specification.

WVILLIAM NELSON GOV

